Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...youngster's picture, or for his religion, or for his mother's name," Sachar said, "but we're confident that we can get diversification without any artificial filters. It will become increasingly easier as the pool of students we have to draw on grows...
...lost to the draft from the '53 lineup, two others to academic strains and a third to a swimming pool. Others, of course, decided not to play football...
...Never Enough." As boss of Selective Service, Hershey was charged with providing manpower for a 3,000,000-man defense establishment from a theoretical 8,300,000-man pool of 18-to-26 year olds. But a tenderhearted Congress, a solicitous Administration and local draft boards had provided deferment for a round 80% of the manpower pool-as veterans, as husbands and fathers, as farmers, as medical students, as scientists and apprentice scientists. "Sure, we don't have enough scientists," snapped Hershey. "We've never had enough-but we've never had enough fighting men either...
When dawn broke, as Chatham told the story, all sorts of things happened. The Russian hustled into a Red army uniform, set forth with the Congressman to a Soviet car pool, and got a jeep. Having passed through the Iron Curtain, they drove on & on, mile after mile into Soviet Germany. Brushing past guards, explaining that his companion was an important representative of a satellite nation, the Russian took the Congressman to a newly built airfield, where he proudly pointed out a line of swept-wing jet planes of late design. Then he drove on to an armored infantry compound...
Just last Saturday a fellow from Eliot House looked up from the green cloth of the pool table, and discovered that his opponent was his own maid...